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With the simultaneous rollout of restrictions on account sharing and price increases/addition of advertising, I’m cutting back severely on streaming services.

I allowed my streaming subscriptions to grow without thinking about it. Without trying to remember the constant merging and bundling, I was subscribed to probably a dozen services at one point. They ranged from Netflix and HBO and Hulu to Shudder and Showtime. I had Paramount, Criterion, Disney, Peacock, and others. I’d do the typical thing where I’d search for a movie, find it is exclusive to a platform, and grab the free trial and forget to cancel. I excused it if I found a movie even every couple of months on it. There were still nights where it’d take an hour to find something I wanted to watch. I was probably closing in on $200/month all told, and I don’t have sports subscriptions.

I’m interested in learning what other people are doing regarding the price hikes and service compromises. Are you cancelling? Are you taking advantage of bundles with your internet services? Are you rotating on some interval? Or are you not changing at all?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I canceled Netflix, but I stayed on their mailing list so I know about new shows I might like to watch. My frigate is now a submarine that goes beep, beep. (it has sonarr, I guess would be the main point I'm trying to make here)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Check out Overseerr if you use Plex, or Jellyseerr if you use Jellyfin.

It will show you popular and upcoming movies/tv shows, and you can integrate with with the arr suite to have users able to request and download the shows.

It's fantastic, especially if you're sharing your media server with others

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much, I was looking for something like this!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m confused. Does this automatically download media?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It will send the request to sonarr or radarr to download it, if you have those set up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Before ditching Netflix I added all my current shows to a calendar/tracking website, which I check every few days and grab anything new, new new shows, in just rely on word of mouth and/or social media.